Hello!

My name is Bettina Bussmann and I am an associate professor for philosophy at the philosophy factulty of the University of Salzburg. My work brings together philosophy of education, philosophy didactics, and philosophy of science. A particular focus lies on interdisciplinary educational questions at the intersection of philosophy, empirical research, and broader societal transformations and doing philosophy with children. In addition, I work on questions in the fields of love, sexuality, and gender.

I advocate a science-oriented approach to philosophy didactics. I understand philosophical education as an epistemic practice: as the cultivation of conceptual and argumentative precision, judgment, and interdisciplinary connectivity. The aim is to systematically relate philosophical thinking to scientific knowledge and lived experience, so that the philosophical problems embedded in our lifeworld can be identified, analyzed in light of established research, and thereby serve as a foundation for reflective judgment.

My academic path was not linear. After an intensive period devoted to raising my children, I consciously chose to return to research and teaching. I runderstand the possibility of this path today as an expression of changing institutional conditions—and as a sign that academic work can and should integrate diverse life trajectories.